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Description

The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state with the aim of enforcing the law and protecting the public order as well as the public itself. This commonly includes ensuring the safety, health, and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers encompass arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence. The term is most commonly associated with the police forces of a sovereign state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. Police forces are often defined as being separate from the military and other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors; however, gendarmerie are military units charged with civil policing. Police forces are usually public sector services, funded through taxes.

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Organizations relating to Police

Nordiska Polisförbundet / Stockholm, Sweden / Est. 1921
Aquapol / Est. 2002
European Network of Railway Police Forces / Winterswijk, Netherlands
Nordic-Baltic Network of Policewomen / Uusikaupunki, Finland / Est. 2001
United Nations Police / New York NY, USA
Southeast Europe Police Chiefs Association / Est. 2002
International Union of Police Associations / Sarasota FL, USA / Est. 1979
Society of Police Futurists International / Est. 1991
International Christian Police Association / Est. 1883
International Police Conference / Est. 1921
World Police League / Est. 1923
Special Standing Committee for the International Police Conference / Est. 1914
International Federation of Police Officials / Est. 1927
United Nations Civilian Police Mission in Haiti / Est. 1997
European Police Chiefs Operational Task Force / The Hague, Netherlands / Est. 2000
Eastern Africa Police Chiefs Cooperation Organization / Est. 1998
Commonwealth Police Association / Est. 2012
European Police Association / Rebecq, Belgium / Est. 1996
Agreement Relating to the International Convention for Regulating the Police of the North Sea Fisheries / Est. 1955
Modification of the Police Regulations Regarding Navigation on the Rhine, the Wahal and the Lek / Est. 1923
Resolution Relative to Sanitary Police, 1906 / Est. 1906
Police Convention / Est. 1920
Resolution Respecting Sanitary Police / Est. 1910
Règlement of Navigation and Police Applicable to the Danube between Galatz and the Mouths / Est. 1911
Resolution Relative to Sanitary Police, 1902 / Est. 1902
Police Cooperation Convention for Southeast Europe / Est. 2006
International Security Officers Police and Guards / Brooklyn NY, USA
International Security and Detective Alliance / Est. 1984
Unified Police Force / Est. 1994
Standing Committee of Police in Europe / Est. 1993
Organisation panarabe de défense sociale
Internationale Kommission der Detektiv Verbände
Inter-American Conference of Police and Judicial Authorities
Police Ministers Council International
International Police / Est. 1932
International Conference of Police Associations / Est. 1953
International Police Office
International Conference of Police Chaplains / Destin FL, USA / Est. 1973
International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America / Roseville MI, USA / Est. 1948
Sheriff Guards International / Lagos, Nigeria / Est. 1965
Ligue internationale des policiers-espérantistes
International Police Task Force / Est. 1995
International Police Security
Network for Improved Policing in South Asia
Capital Policing Europe / Est. 1979
Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police / Wellington, New Zealand / Est. 1970
Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police / St Michael, Barbados / Est. 1987
International Conference Centre of the International Police Association / Marienheide, Germany / Est. 1969
European Police Office / The Hague, Netherlands / Est. 1994
Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Cooperation Organization / Harare, Zimbabwe / Est. 1997

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World Problems relating to Police

From the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

Police crimes during narcotic investigations
International police infiltration by criminals
Aircraft noise
Low-intensity conflict
Abuses by private police forces
Commercialization of crime-prevention
Police brutality
Political police
Unethical practices by police forces
Unrestrained use of force in administration of justice
Police corruption
Unregulated police immunity
Excessive population demands on the environment
Ecological footprint of cities
Political repression
Secret police
Vigilantism
Rape by military personnel
Inhumane interrogation techniques
Interrogation while naked
Unethical interrogation methods

Action Strategies relating to Police

From the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

Policing
Applying ecological footprint analysis
Operating private detective agency
Reducing agricultural footprint
Improving morale of police force
Applying historical precedent
Organizing citizen and police cooperation
Authorizing arbitration of minor crime by police
Maintaining civil police force
Strengthening cooperative security measures
Empowering police courts
Crossing guard
International coordination of police forces
Interrogating
Fortifying frontier lines
Authorizing police search
Controlling police operations
Enhancing independence of police operations
Democratizing police state
Abolishing unethical practices by police forces
Correcting police attitudes
Bribing police
Trusting police
Distrusting police
Regulating trade in endangered species

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